{"id":38189,"date":"2013-10-29T12:32:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T16:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38189"},"modified":"2013-10-29T12:32:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T16:32:17","slug":"why-leftist-blogs-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38189","title":{"rendered":"Why Leftist blogs failed"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a piece going around the other side of the blogoshpere from mostly liberal Ian Welsh entitled “A brief note on why the progressive blog movement failed<\/a>“. He gets a lot of it right, especially;<\/p>\n

Unlike the Tea Party, most left wingers don\u2019t really believe their own ideology. They put partisanship first, or they put the color of a candidate\u2019s skin or the shape of their genitals over the candidate\u2019s policy. Identity is more important to them than how many brown children that politician is killing.<\/p>\n

So progressives have no power, because they have no principles: they cannot be expected to actually vote for the most progressive candidate, to successfully primary candidates, to care about policy first and identity second, to not take scraps from the table and sell out other progressive\u2019s interests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d add that the main reason they’ve failed is because President Bush left office. The internet was fairly new when he took office and the yapping clowns of the left like Kos and Huffington seized on their new-found megaphone to beat the anti-Bush tattoo on their anti-war drums until it became just so much noise. They couldn’t really change policy despite the fact that they reminded us everyday that Bush policy was opposed by “most Americans” (Most americans they knew, anyway). And it was all about putting a Democrat in the White House. It’s correct that they have no principles and they don’t vote for policy, they just vote for “Yay! Our team!”<\/p>\n

You don’t hear much criticism from those portals of crap when this President follows the same policies of his predecessor, do you? Because he’s on their team and that’s their only guiding principle. I’m just amazed that Welsh noticed, or that he’d say it out loud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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